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venerdì 15 maggio 2009

(I hope this story help good hearted people to watch from cold hearted scammers)Once upon a time,

I came to work in Amsterdam and I thought I had a good colleague, I was always so nice to him, I also give him a good feedback on Linkedin! After one month we knew each other he asked me for money, he said he had problems with his credit card and had to leave for Romania the morning after, it was september 2008. I drove for more 30kms to bring him money.After many many months he gave me a part (probably it is a technique), in the meantime he was buying things for himself, a house in purmerend, all the furniture, his eletronic gadgets so much beloved by him('a deambox with a dish equipped with a multilnb to catch multiple satellites in the same time')The funny thing is that he was telling me the things he was buying, and for the dreambox he showed me the invoice to see how expensive it was!He then decided to leave this nice company to go and earn more money,in a financial company in Amsterdam as well.Only the last weeks he was sitting in the office face-to-face to me, I understood something bad was in his thoughts, strange answers('I have to discuss with my wife'For my money?!) , foolish excuses('I've lost your bank account number'), and weird behaviours('leaving office head down without saying hello when asked about money'), too many for a simple act.I did not want to believe it. I am good hearted and feel good when I help people.After the last 'story' ( "I have just made the transfer" )the last day (29 April 2009) in the company I realized that I was not going to get my money back. For two weeks I sent mails, sms, phone calls, chats, not an answer. I prayed him and his wife to answer me. Completely ignored. Now I know that it has always been in its mind, he never replied to me on a written fashion so not to have a written proof of his debt. During the many months he had his debt I never wanted to ask for my money in front of the team not to ashame him. I really feel stupid now. My friends who knew the story were amazed of how he could be so natural in sitting in front of me without feeling a bit ashame in telling about the expensive gadgets he was buying while ignoring the debt he has with me.

But then came the day, Friday 15th May, when I realized that sometimes bad people start paying for their bad actions on this earth! His new ex-company, that deals with money (a lot of) makes very deep investigations on people, luckily.

After 10 days of work they discovered something is wrong with the dude,they fired him.

Praise the Lord.

Good Luck to all good people.

The Bottom Line:Usually MSSQL DBAs are not so bad (apart that they are Microsoft!) but if he is romanian you have some chances to be scammed. Seriously WHENEVER you lend money make a signed paper, that will save you a lot of problems and months of anger.